Publisher's Synopsis
In this second book of the Kate St. Claire series, Officer St. Claire has returned to London from the family home in Devonshire when the G7 and the EU impose a total ban on all Russian diamonds-at a potential loss of 4.3 billion dollars to the Muscovite republic.
St. Claire is summoned to Thames House to partner with Agent Farraday in a joint op with MI6 that will pull them into the high-tech world of lab-produced diamonds where a 10-carat stone can be quickly created in a CVD machine. Swiftly paced and with razor-sharp characterization, the Ten Carat action moves from Red Square to the city of St. Petersburg, and from Belgravia to the stormy Highlands of Scotland as St. Claire races against the clock to retrieve a female hostage caught up in a Russian scheme to sidestep the diamond ban.
